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Thursday 3 March 2011

Welcome to the world William Tuck (Archived from old blog) - Dated 25th December 2010




Well its been a loooonnggg time since my last post. So, whilst I have inspiration and whilst I’m cooking the Christmas Turkey, I thought I’d make that return to form that some of you have been waiting for.
The 22nd of November – was a normal day. We had both eaten and I’d just settled down for another session of the new ‘Assassins Creed: Brotherhood’ PS3 game. All was going well – I had cooked a meal and both Lisa and myself were ready for an early night.
I was really looking forward to Will’s ‘birth-day’ and couldn’t wait to leave work to go on Paternity leave. No one could have predicted what was to happen next.
Lisa called me from upstairs, in obvious distress - I dashed up those stairs faster than Speedy Gonzalez. We had both been worried for the previous day or so – because Lisa hadn’t really felt that much in the way of kicks or movement from the little fella. So you can imagine I feared the worst. We had even contemplated going to the hospital earlier that day just to check things out.
Anyway - Lisa was complaining of pains and that she thought her waters had broken. We decided to collect a sample – I did take a look and did think ‘Oh dear this could be the time’. I didn’t want to cause any panic as Lisa had been worrying about her planned Caesarean for some time now.
We had in fact gone into the hospital a week or so previously for a manual turning of the baby or ECV (as he was breeched) – so we are still thinking that this could have caused this break of the sac containing the amniotic fluids.
We decided to pack her maternity bag just in case and headed to the hospital as quickly and safely as we could.
When we arrived we were met by a midwife, who after a little chat – looked at the sample. Lisa biggest fears were answered – she was to have the Caesarean tonight!
People don’t actually realise without having been there, how absolutely petrifying birth is – natural or c-section – it makes no difference! I’m not sure about all these folk that say its the most amazing moment of your life (they miss out the scary, petrifying and tearful bit! Which is probably the bit that will stick in my mind until I go to my grave).
We waited from around 11.30pm ish till 6am until it was finally our turn on the delivery ‘production line’. Lisa disappeared after going into natural labour (she enjoyed the gas rather too much) – to get an epidural. Whilst experiencing labour for a mere hour or so – I sensed a dramatic change in Lisa’s attitude toward the impending procedure. She was very nervous before about the c-section but once she’d had a true taste of real labour – she literally ran towards the room to receive the anaesthetic!!!
Meanwhile – I paced back and forth in the delivery room for what seemed like an eternity.
Finally I was told to put on my rather fetching pink hat and go to the operating theatre. Christ – that was scary too – big bright lights, lots of medical equipment and two of the biggest surgeons I have ever seen – they looked more at home in an action movie than a hospital! ;)
I was later to receive many comments on Facebook about looking like a servery member of staff in a canteen, condom-head etc – all comments were greatly appreciated ;)
Anyway after lots of talking gibberish to each other – tugs, pulls and squelches – our little fella appeared above the block-out curtain (Lisa was asked if she wanted to see him born – but I can understand why someone wouldn’t want to see a baby appearing from an open wound in your belly!).
This – for Lisa and myself was a life changing experience – something that you could never forget. We both cried and he was here at last. A years worth of treatment, pain, tears, anguish - and our dreams had finally been realised.
Welcome to the world William Charles Tuck

Rest assured little one, we will both love you until the day we leave this world ourselves…..
x

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